Political Quotes

“I am pleased that the substitute offered in committee helps to ensure that cleanup activities at the three uranium enrichment sites in our country do not suffer a setback as we increase funding available for the thorium processing site under title X of the Energy Policy Act of 1992. There is no doubt that all of these sites need to be cleaned up and these activities do not come cheaply. It is important that we clean up the thorium processing site in West Chicago, Illinois; and I completely understand the Speaker's desire to ensure Federal funds are available to do so. However, because the funds to clean up the thorium site come from the Uranium Decommissioning and Decontamination Fund, it is important to me and my friends from Kentucky and Tennessee that the reimbursement for cleanup of the Illinois site does not shift funds from the cleanup activities at the three uranium enrichment sites. It is also important that the burden for cleaning up the thorium site does not fall on nuclear-powered ratepayers.”